Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe 23rd Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference was held just a few short weeks ago, with the theme focusing on the concept of Personalised Learning. The theme’s full title, Personalised Learning: Transformation or Twaddle?, was perhaps more than just a c…

Reading Time: 3 minutesOn 27th February 2025, as part of the LOUISA project, representatives from Professional Services teams across the University gathered to discuss requirements, wishes and questions around assessment and feedback within Learn. The aim of these sessions is to get College and School input into how assessment and feedback works, and for this input to impact […]

Reading Time: 5 minutesIn this post, Course Organiser Madeleine Campbell and Learning Technologist Jamie Auld Smith share their experience of implementing an integrated Learn assignment rubric with the aim of enhancing the consistency of essay feedback provided to postgraduate students while ensuring a practical and transparent marking and moderation workflow. Jamie and Madeleine share this work on behalf […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Attending the first round of the Academic User Group (AUG) and Professional Services User Group (PSUG) meetings in late 2024 was a fantastic opportunity to connect with colleagues across disciplines, Schools, and Colleges. As a Learning Technologist, collaborating on assessment (re)design is a key part of my role, and these sessions provided valuable insights […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Turnitin integration with Learn assignments allows instructors to use Turnitin’s similarity checker within a Learn assignment making the most of Learn’s flexible grading view and marking features. The similarity checker compares the text in a student submission against an extensive database of websites, academic reference materials and previously submitted work, to produce a similarity […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn April 2024, Turnitin released a Paper Lookup tool for Instructors in Learn Ultra course to retrieve, and download, students’ submissions. This is useful for accessing the submissions that had become unavailable after the disabling of the legacy Turnitin integration in Learn course (generally those from AY 2021-2022 and earlier), and will also provide access […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTurnitin have released a new version of the Similarity Report in Feedback Studio recently. It has been made available to all staff on Tuesday 19 November and, for the time being, you will be able to choose whether to use the new “Beta View” or continue to use the “Classic” Similarity Report. The default option […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe last ALT-C I attended was when it was hosted here in at The University of Edinburgh in the impressive McEwan Hall in 2019, just before the world changed. So it felt appropriate that the opening Keynote by Chris Friend (Keane University, USA) ‘Human…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNow that some of the dust from the VLE transition to Learn Ultra is starting to settle, many of us in EDE have caught our collective breath and have a few minutes to look more deeply into other aspects of our VLE and its associated learning tools and p…

Reading Time: 3 minutesTo support colleagues with the move to Learn Ultra, additional Migration Assistants were brought onboard in the run up to Semester One to provide expertise around moving very large and complex courses. In this post, Migration Assistant Paula Sivandan shares some advice for streamlining complex courses. The launch of Learn Ultra for the 2023-24 academic […]